Fake News as a Threat to the Democratic Media Environment: Past Conditions of Media Regulation and Their Contemporary Applicability to New Media in the United States of America and South Korea
Abstract
This study uses a comparative case study policy analysis to evaluate whether the media
regulation standards that the governments of the United States of America and South
Korea used in the past apply to fake news on social media and the Internet today.
We first identify the shared conditions based on which the two governments intervened
in the free press. Then we examine media regulation laws regarding these conditions
and review court cases in which they were utilized. In each section, we draw similarities
and differences between the two governments’ courses of action. The comparative analysis
will serve useful in the conclusion, where we assess the applicability of those conditions
to fake news on new media platforms in each country and deliberate policy recommendations
as well as policy flow between the two countries.
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Park, Jae Hyun Jackie (2018). Fake News as a Threat to the Democratic Media Environment: Past Conditions of Media
Regulation and Their Contemporary Applicability to New Media in the United States
of America and South Korea. Honors thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19170.Collections
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